Store Page. PlanetSide 2 Store Page. Showing 1 - 15 of 44 comments. Oh, and here's the best part: it's only gonna get bigger as time goes by. So if download time is that much of an issue for you, here are some tips: 1. Upgrade your hardware 2. Get better internet Simple, no? If yes, then quit complaining.
If not, then why are you even playing this game? Oh, and just an fyi: the Steam downloader is outdated, so it only downloads the base files essential to the game. The launcher is where you download all the patches and stuff. Have fun with the next patch! Last edited by Cracker Nugget ; 13 Apr, pm. Mishotaki View Profile View Posts. Captain View Profile View Posts.
Originally posted by Mishotaki :. Last edited by Cracker Nugget ; 14 Apr, pm. The two plugs then communicate through the electrical wiring of the house to deliver a strong, wired, internet connection to any part of the home. They are plug and play devices with no complex setup or DIY and will work in any house where the circuitry is wired normally and in good condition.
Click here to view on Amazon. It will provide a solid, wired ethernet connection to your router using the existing electrical wiring of your house. See our full review of the product and our Powerline Adapters page. Our Product Comparison Table compares all the wired and wireless powerline adapter models at a glance by feature and functionality. Powerline adapters can be an excellent solution in this case, since they allow for a wired connection directly to your router using the house circuitry, which means you can extract the maximum possible bandwidth out of your internet to get your files downloaded faster.
Powerline adapters will work in the majority of houses where the circuitry is wired correctly and still in good condition. In a smaller number of cases they may not work; see our article on these cases.
In most modern and semi modern houses you should be fine. Where the house wiring is in good condition, they can deliver a connection almost as good as if you were plugged into the router directly, which is exactly what gamers need for low latency and downloading large files. Ethernet connections will always be faster than Wi-Fi for downloads. Sometimes this may not work the first time and you need to pause and resume the download a couple of times to get a better speed.
Go to Notifications …. Downloads to do this. See the quick video demo below. Also, if you have multiple downloads going at once, then pause some of the non essential ones so the ones you really want will download faster. It is very important to configure the right settings on your PS4 though so it can still download when in rest mode. Your PS4 will now still continue to download files even when in rest mode, and in some cases this may make the download complete a little faster.
The light on your console will flash orange when it is in rest mode. Pressing the power button or the PlayStation button on your pad will turn the console back on so you can check download progress. Another way to potentially improve download speeds on your PS4 is to change your DNS server settings. This can sometimes improve the bandwidth available to your console, but is very hit and miss and will sometimes make no difference or even worsen the speeds you get.
The performance of DNS servers depends on so many different factors it is impossible to predict what will happen in each case if you change them. However, it is worth trying if you want to see if you can get files to download a little faster.
Uploading and downloading data can take a while, depending on the file's size and transfer rate. Think of it like pouring water into a beaker. Pouring water from one beaker to another will only take a little amount of time. However, if we place a funnel on one beaker, the amount of water flow will decrease due to the narrow part of the funnel. The flow rate of the water in this analogy is similar to the transfer rate of a file. We can compare a funnel's narrow tube part to what is called the internet's bandwidth.
The larger the bandwidth is, the more data that can be transmitted at a time. Therefore, a file can be transferred much faster if the internet connection has a larger bandwidth. Bandwidth is also, in a way, an internet connection's maximum capacity, and we can express it in units of bits per second. Internet bandwidth can also represent the maximum speed an internet connection can have. However, when moving a file from one computer to another, the maximum transfer speed will depend on the slowest bandwidth that the data has to go through - which can be anywhere in the route.
To better understand this, let us consider an example. Let's say that your friend wants to send you his new MB megabytes video creation over his 10 Mbps megabits per second internet connection. On the other hand, you will be receiving the video file over your 5 Mbps home internet connection. For this example, let us assume that the upload and download speeds for both connections can use their entire bandwidths.
Since the file will also be coming through the much lower 5 Mbps connection, this will be the maximum transfer speed that we can get for this data transfer. But, to determine the upload and download speeds of your connection, you can use any third-party speed test applications that can be accessed online through your browser. Now that we know how to determine the transfer speed for our uploads and downloads, we can now calculate a file's download time or duration.
Calculating download time is as simple as dividing the size of the file you wish to transfer by the transfer speed of the network that the transfer will go through. However, we have to be careful with the units we use, since this could be quite confusing. Let us consider the example above for our sample computation. To calculate how long to download the MB video over a 5 Mbps internet download speed, we can use the equation below:.
But first, let us convert the units of the file size in terms of megabits, which is equivalent to 1 million bits. To do so, we'll be using the conversion table above under the SI system.
With that said, we now have this computation:. As shown above, the MB video file will finish downloading in less than 11 minutes over a stable 5 Mbps connection. However, if somebody else in the house uses the internet while you're downloading this video file, it could take much longer to complete the download because of congestion in the data transfer.
Aside from calculating the download time of a file from the internet, you can also use this calculator to determine the transfer duration from, let's say, a computer to an external storage device like a USB flash drive.
However, you must first know the transfer rate of your connection to calculate the transfer duration. You can also use this download time calculator to determine your download speed.
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